World Spider Catalog

Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: Considered a senior synonym of Lyssomanidae by Galiano, 1976b: 67; for illustrations of scale morphology of about 60 species, see Hill, 1979; for a database with diagnostic drawings maintained by J. Prószyński, see: http://www.peckhamia.com/salticidae; for the phylogeny within the family see Maddison & Hedin, 2003b, Maddison, 2015, Maddison et al., 2017 and Prószyński, 2017b.

In synonymy:

Anokopsis Bauab-Vianna & Soares, 1980 = Rudra G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1885 (Marta et al., 2023: 222)

Gen. Rudra G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1885 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03201

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Anokopsis Bauab-Vianna & Soares, 1980a: 697 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02816] (type A. avitoides Bauab-Vianna & Soares, 1980) by Marta et al., 2023a: 222.

Transferred to other genera:

Rudra dagostinae Braul & Lise, 1999 -- see Rudra

In synonymy:

Rudra dagostinae Braul & Lise, 1999 = Rudra avitoides Bauab-Vianna & Soares, 1980 (Marta et al., 2023: 222)

Nomina dubia:

Rudra baurensis Badcock, 1932: 46, f. 38 (jf, Paraguay) -- Galiano, 1984d: 66

Rudra impatiens Mello-Leitão, 1945c: 174 (m, Brazil) -- Galiano, 1984d: 68

Rudra proxima Mello-Leitão, 1922a: 227, f. 24 (f, Brazil) -- Galiano, 1984d: 70

Rudra avitoides (Bauab-Vianna & Soares, 1980) | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032300

Anokopsis avitoides Bauab-Vianna & Soares, 1980a: 697, f. 1-6 (Dm) Original description

Rudra dagostinae Braul & Lise, 1999: 11, f. 1-3, 11-12 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035938]

Anokopsis avitoides Prószyński, 2017b: 129, f. 57N (m)

Rudra avitoides Marta et al., 2023: 222, f. 1a-d (m, T from Anokopsis, S of Rudra dagostinae)

Rudra brescoviti Braul & Lise, 1999 | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035937

Rudra brescoviti Braul & Lise, 1999: 11, f. 4-10, 13-16 (Dmf) Original description

Rudra geniculata G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1885 | | Guatemala, Panama, Colombia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035939

Rudra geniculata Peckham & Peckham, 1885b: 77, pl. 2, f. 9 (Df) Original description

Rudra geniculata Peckham & Peckham, 1894a: 121, pl. 12, f. 3 (f)

Rudra geniculata F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 255, pl. 22, f. 14 (f)

Rudra geniculata Galiano, 1984d: 64, f. 2, 20, 24 (f)

Rudra geniculata Maddison, 1996: 332, f. 54 (figured previously undescribed m)

Rudra geniculata Prószyński, 2017b: 94, f. 42T (m)

Rudra geniculata Bedoya-Róqueme, Lopez-Villada & Nadal, 2020: 2, f. 1-4 (f)

Rudra humilis Mello-Leitão, 1945 | | Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035940

Rudra humilis Mello-Leitão, 1945b: 294, f. 86 (Df) Original description

Rudra humilis Galiano, 1984d: 66, f. 6-8, 11, 17-18, 21, 27 (f, Dm)

Rudra humilis Pett, Rubio & Stolar, 2021: 929, f. 9C-E (m)

Rudra minensis Galiano, 1984 | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035941

Rudra minensis Galiano, 1984d: 68, f. 3-4, 22-23 (Df) Original description

Rudra multispina Caporiacco, 1947 | | Guyana urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035942

Rudra multispina Caporiacco, 1947a: 34 (Df) Original description

Rudra multispina Caporiacco, 1948a: 732, f. 166 (f)

Rudra multispina Galiano, 1984d: 68, f. 28-29 (f)

Rudra oriximina Galiano, 1984 | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035943

Rudra oriximina Galiano, 1984d: 68, f. 5, 15-16, 19 (Dm) Original description

Rudra polita G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1894 | | Guatemala urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035944

Rudra polita Peckham & Peckham, 1894a: 121, pl. 12, f. 4 (Df) Original description

Rudra polita F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 255, pl. 22, f. 14 (f)

Rudra polita Simon, 1903a: 851, f. 1001-1003

Rudra polita Galiano, 1984d: 70, f. 1, 25 (f)

Rudra tenera G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1894 | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035945

Rudra tenera Peckham & Peckham, 1894a: 122, pl. 12, f. 5 (Df) Original description

Rudra tenera Galiano, 1984d: 70, f. 9, 26 (f)

Rudra wagae (Taczanowski, 1871) | | French Guiana urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035946

Attus wagae Taczanowski, 1871: 41 (Dm) Original description

Rudra wagae Peckham & Peckham, 1894a: 121 (T from Attus)

Attus wagae Roewer, 1955c: 1432 (nicht zu deuten = nomen dubium)

Rudra wagae Galiano, 1984d: 71, f. 10, 12-14 (m; removed from S of Lurio solennis, rejecting Simon, 1901a: 626 and from nomen dubium per Roewer)